I came across flite text to speech in the request thread, and downloaded the files
to see what I could do with them, looks kind of promising, it isn't small somewhere around 14meg
with all the lib file's, the one thing I really like is the talking clock, sounds quite good with
a male Scottish accent, as for the text to speech that's kind of ok, well I can understand it, it comes
with 6 voices that's including the default one, not any way of changing speed that I could find so it's
fairly basic but useable.

It converts to a wav file or reads directly from text, I opted to convert to wav file so that I could store
them for future use, so I have made a small GUI to do that, found the wav files to be to large
so now I've made it so that it converts them to 32bit mp3's, I have tried them at 8bit their still intelligible
and very small, I've still yet to see what else can be done with it so will be a while before I can package it
so in the mean time I'll just post what I've done so far.

code for the GUI
EDIT UPDATE V2 for testing:
now have radiobuttons to select voice's and bit-rate
mp3 file naming, now you can type with spaces, it automatically replaces them with "_".
EDIT: cleaned up the script to make it clearer to read

I've tidied it up a bit, removed the frames to tighten it up, made the voice list selectable,
so now just highlight the voice you want then click on it and drag it to the input box.

It now restarts after a recording and if the media player is selected it restarts after the play is closed, so it seems quite good now,
the mouse does all the work only have to type a name, then that could be cut a pasted.

added a xdialog popup as you suggested, though I still have to give it some content.

There isn't all that much info on the voices, other than male, female, American, Scottish.

I've made a flv of it in action, I'll update the first post when I've done the popup

My next update, V2.2 it's such a pain trying to find a theme that suits as the buttons don't always aline
like I would like them to, so this is the best I can do for the time being.

Anyway so far I've rearranged it slightly, added the ability to listen to the voice's with a sample text,
removed the default voice from the list as it sounds the same as KAL, not the best choice, KAL16 is not
much better, I find AWB the Male Scottish, RMS Male US and SLT Female US the most pleasing,
If I had to pick one it would be RMS, the Male US voice as being the most fluent

also added that when a WAV is recorded it also creates a corresponding txt file in the save dir with the
same information as a mp3 id tag, thought that might be handy, as well as mouse over tool-tip text for the gui.
moved the Quit button away from the record, I kept hitting it by mistake.

As I said when I first started this I'm only a novice, so it may not work as some would expect, I firstly
made it as a one off converter which was supposed to be run when needed but, it does rerun the gui but
doesn't totally close thus leaves a bash script still running which will increment each time until the gui
is quit, I don't know how to get around this, I'm still learning, so any input would be appreciated.

Updating to V2.2, I'm removing the code as it takes up to much room, really no point in having it there.

Thank you Geoffrey, Stu90, and Lobster.
This is just what I wanted, so I can "read" while driving, or doing the dishes.
I found out I had to place the text file in root directory for it to work.
Probably because the dir it was in had some spaces in it.
This is a great app the voice sounds almost natural.
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I find this is an interesting addition to Puppy.
Question
Is there a tool somewhere that anyone would recommend for using Puppy in creating your own voice(s) for use with Flite?

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Well done Geoffrey.
I've been working with Festival lately with the Nitech voices and noticed that Flite was listed with those same voices. I find the rms voice is listenable. So I checked http://www.wellminded.com/puppy/pupsearch.html and here was your package. Very Nice.

Well done Geoffrey.
I've been working with Festival lately with the Nitech voices and noticed that Flite was listed with those same voices. I find the rms voice is listenable. So I checked http://www.wellminded.com/puppy/pupsearch.html and here was your package. Very Nice.

I'd forgot all about it, yeah works ok but I guess the voices can be a little irritating. now I can see how it could be made to look a little better and improve the functionality, though I think it does the job ok as it is. I would of liked more voices but I'm afraid that's it, flite-1.4-release was the last, updated 2009.
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